Which RT-5 was involved in naming the incident? Word Of God says: "Let's go with both.". Later put into a somewhat different context by an update to First Flight which reveals that the RT-5 "Trashcan" Solid Rocket Boosters have a craft beer named after them.The details are left to the reader's imagination, but apparently it resulted in Gene's car and a passing yacht getting totalled, Bob being MIA for a while and a very large amount of paperwork. Noodle Incident: The RT-5 incident, involving some old solid rocket boosters the Kerbin Space Agency was getting rid of and a local body of water.It's still anthropomorphocized as the "devil" of the Kerbal religeon, however. Even they don't completely understand how it works yet. It's also the key to faster-than-light travel: The Kerbals gained FTL drives by firing probes repeatedly into it, then took the data they got from the returned probes and cobbled together a drive based on that. Negative Space Wedgie: The Deep Space Kraken turns out to be one of these.Mythology Gag: It's noted that Kerbal language sounds like someone speaking Spanish backwards, which is exactly what it is.Must Have Caffeine: Bob gets through a rather alarming amount of "a liquid it is convenient to call coffee", which probably explains his nervous disposition.Mundane Utility: The Quantum Entanglement Communications System is supposed to be for relaying data between the Starfarer 1 and Mission Control back on Kerbin.Mission Control: Hasn't played a huge role in the story so far, but a minor subplot involves the retirement of Gene Kerman, who performed this role for Jeb and Co.Turns out that aircrew tend to leave salutes and rank behind on the ground because they get in the way, though this doesn't mean discipline is at all lax. Mildly Military: Lampshaded by Jeb, who expected career Air Force officer Kurt McKerjel to have more trouble fitting in with the mostly civilian crew than he actually did.But it would at least have created a certain sense of occasion. Jeb's Blog: It's not that I particularly wanted to be stricken blind or go gibbering mad the first time I looked out of the window, mind you. Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Averted, to Jeb's mild disappointment.Kerbals might think a lot like humans, but there are. Out-of-universe, Starfarer 1 is described being as comparable in size to a Panamax container ship. The pusher plate for the hypothetical Orion Drive design is described as massing as much as an entire "Pioneer-type Mun lander", which is Kerbin's equivalent of an Apollo-Saturn V, and on another occasion he claims to have so many ebooks stored in his laptop that taking them all with him to the Mun in physical form would have required its own mission. Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure: Used regularly in Jeb's blog.Game of Nerds: Scott Kerbley, the chief engineer, is a fan of a Kerbal team sport very similar to Cricket.
The actual in-person contact team are three veteran astronauts, one engineer who helped create the Alcubierre Drive and one skilled Communications Officer who's supposed to scan for radio and TV signals so they can start picking up the language if they do find some aliens.
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